Question about public option [View All]

[sledgehammer]

In many discussions I have about the current healthcare bill, the following always comes up (from libs and conservatives both):

"If a public option is available, is there anything to prevent a company from switching to it? And why wouldn't they switch, if the public option is of a decent quality and is more affordable?"

There's a bit of paranoia that companies will rush to the public option en masse, which could mean employees losing their current doctors/choices/etc (of course, they conveniently forget that companies can switch insurance companies every year if they wanted to, which would mean losing options anyway).

How can I, as Rachel would put it, talk them down???

Thanks!